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Improved version of the DBus-Java library provided by freedesktop.org (https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-java/).

There is a newer version: 5.1.0

package org.freedesktop.dbus.interfaces;

import org.freedesktop.dbus.exceptions.DBusException;

/**
 * Custom classes may be sent over DBus if they implement this interface.
 * 
 * In addition to the serialize method, classes MUST implement a deserialize method which returns null and takes
 * as it's arguments all the DBus types the class will be serialied to in order and with type
 * parameterisation. They MUST also provide a zero-argument constructor.
 * 
 * 
 * The serialize method should return the class properties you wish to serialize, correctly formatted for the wire
 * (DBusConnection.convertParameters() can help with this), in order in an Object array.
 * 
 * 
 * The deserialize method will be called once after the zero-argument constructor. This should contain all the code to
 * initialise the object from the types.
 * 
 */
public interface DBusSerializable {
    Object[] serialize() throws DBusException;
}